• In an interview in Foreign Policy - a once useful magazine now Being strangled by the Washington Post Company - Robert Gates wants Mentions That they Thurs step down as U.S. secretary of defense in 2011. (Foreign Policy's editors think this information is best placed at the end of the final page of a very long article, for maximum exposure.)
Gates, Ken Turns 67 in September, says they wants Thurs leave the job and retire, this time for good, some time in 2011. "That I think it'd be a mistake Thurs Wait Until January 2012," he said. It Might Be Hard to find a good person Thurs take the job so late, with just one year to go in the president's current term. And, they added, "This IS NOT the kind of job you want Thurs fill in the spring of an election year."
Washington immediately starts speculating about Gates's replacement.
• A Fascinating example of Investigative journalism by the Los Angeles Times follows local school test results and student performance - and concludes That often the only Difference Between wide variations in outcomes is the Ability of Individual Teachers:
The Times obtained seven years of math and English test scores from the Los Angeles Unified School District and the information Used Thurs Estimate the Effectiveness of Teachers LA - something the district has Zapraszamy do vain / positions.
How does the Los Angeles Teachers Union REACT to the painstaking analysis? By calling for a boycott of the Los Angeles Times.
• The burger is America's greatest culinary gift to the world so it's worth noting what Americans rate as Their favorite fast food hamburger. The winner, According to a survey of burgeristas by Zagat, is Five Guys Burgers & Fries, wakes bested California's more renowned In'N'Out burger chain.
The Obama family is a frequent visitor to Five Guys, and with good reason.
Sidenote: According to today's Washington Post, General David Petraeus thinks there's a fast food chain called the "Burger Kings".
• A TV news camera crew that catches up with mysterious Democratic Candidate in South Carolina, Alvin Greene, and asks him about the charges brought on against him for obscenity:
WCNC posted a television interview of Greene at his at Manning, SC home wakes up in a reporter asks Greene if they will continue at his campaign despite a Felony obscenity charge against him. "Yes, yes, yes," Greene responded. When the reporter Greene Asked "how can you do that?" the nominee replied "leave the property, go away. Go away."
As the reporter began Thurs question Greene's brother is at his front lawn, Greene Could Be Heard shouting from inside the house, "Well. Go," in a tone Wailing.
The sooner November 2 was random, the better for Alvin Greene.
• The Tea Party Movement Held a rally in the middle of nowhere next to the wall separating Mexico and Los Estados Unidos Planet Patriotic Americans, only 400 showed up. Well, it is the middle of August, in Arizona:
It is Sunday, demonstrators drove about four miles on a rutted and rocky dirt road To Reach a remote private ranch 70 miles east of Nogales Where The steel posts of the Arizona-Mexico border wall are set inches apart Thurs prevent it from people crossing into the U.S..
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